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living above 10000m

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January 10th 2008
After 31 and a half hours in the sky, 11 in-flight movies, and 7 airline meals I'm finally here, and it's great! I find it pretty warm here, but maybe that's just me being a typical Canadian. Last night a guy walked into one of the rooms wearing jeans and a golf shirt and said it was freezing, I was in shorts and I was sweating sheets of rain it was so hot. The temperature here is nothing compare ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Kings Cross

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more